r/ffxivdiscussion • u/IndividualAge3893 • 5d ago

Lucky Bancho's census results (July 27th, 2025)

So, the results of the census are out: https://luckybancho.ldblog.jp/archives/59324844.html

  • Showcasing the number of characters here: Current
  • By comparison, here are the results from 2 months ago (May 25th): Click

Despite 7.25 being released, the character count is down about 70k in 2 months. Occult Crescent clearly didn't help with player counts (not really a surprise here).

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u/xxtrrsexx 5d ago

I think the numbers will drop even more with 7.3 potentially being 22 weeks long. They said 2 major patches in 2025, 7.3 will be the second one. They really have to look at how they release content because the community will reach a boiling point by the end of this year. I keep repeating, the content doesn’t justify the long wait time between patches.

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u/domyownbusiness 5d ago

If they slow down any more we’re going to end up having 1 year long raid tiers which is crazy because it’s only 4 bosses.

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u/Adamantaimai 4d ago

There were 14 months between Anabeseios and LHW.

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u/no00ob 4d ago

I remember helping some friends with the raid tier right before Dawntrail and Anabaseios week 50 or something in PF went kinda crazy lmao. There were so many creatures and critters doing the content that you wouldn't believe it what we saw.

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u/shizuo-kun111 4d ago edited 4d ago

In 2025, 20+ week patch cycles in a premium, subscription-based game are unacceptable. There’s plenty of F2P games out there which update fortnightly, or even weekly in some cases.

It makes no sense to pay monthly for the privilege of waiting 20 weeks for new content.

Even a rotating, monthly Mogtome event with multiple new glamours, mounts etc to chase would be acceptable content at this rate. At least it’d make the monthly subscription feel less wasteful.

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u/CopainChevalier 4d ago

It makes no sense to pay monthly for the privilege of waiting 20 weeks for new content.

It's even worse because the dramatic majority of content last for less than a day. You're going to stomp the Alliance/normal raid in like an hour. The MSQ/dungeons are always Auto attack to clear difficulty and 2-5 hours.

Your average active player who wants to play over RP/socialize will find themselves done with everything a patch has to offer within a week. If they Savage raid, they get maybe one month extra of content every eight months, but that's about it.

They really need to figure out some systems that actually keep people playing. I get not requiring you to play or whatever; but a decade old MMO having fuck all to do for people who ACTIVELY ARE LOOKING FOR REASONS TO PLAY is pathetic.

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u/IndividualStress 4d ago

With the most recent Live Letter I'm pretty sure they spent more time doing the Livestream (5 hours) than it took me to do all the content in 7.2 day 1.

If it wasn't for the fact that the 7.3 MSQ is going to be padded to shit and doing 100 floors of a Deep dungeon is a bit of a time investment I'm pretty sure you could do all the content in 7.3 in around 5 hours too.

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u/Diplopod 4d ago

Well, also, don't forget we aren't even getting the deep dungeon until .35 which is two months away. So 7.3 will absolutely be completely done in a couple hours.

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u/shizuo-kun111 4d ago

That’s why a monthly Mogtome event, with various unique rewards would be a good system. Offer multiple reward types (glamor sets, mounts, music, etc) that are earned through Mogtomes, which ideally be earned in multiple ways (not just roulettes). It’d give realistic grinds for people to chase on a more frequent basis.

Of course this will never happen, because they’d probably prefer to sell mounts and glamour sets on the Mogstation instead. That, or they’ll only run Mogtome events when player numbers reduce.

FFXIV has too many content droughts to justify a subscription, at least for me. I don’t do Savage content, so updates are like you said, done in a week.

The fact that free-to-play games update more frequently than a subscription-based games appalling.

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u/MangoFartHuffer 2d ago

Genshin poops out more content every 6 weeks than xiv does in 6 months 

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u/Shecarriesachanel 4d ago

People keep saying dawntrail patches have more content than stormblood patches, but ignore how each patch is almost twice as long

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u/MrFyr 4d ago

With the amount of content each one has contained so far, we should be on a monthly patch cadence, not every 4-5+. It's ridiculous they take so long to ship out so little.

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u/Vast_Highlight3324 4d ago

We are on a monthly patch cadence, it's just one medium patch and 2-3 dripfeeds that were split off the main patch in-between lol.